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I have been reading about canonical for about 4 hours to understand it after I got all freaked out that my website was not showing up as indexed. Turns out I was checking out the www.website.com version. When I checked website.com (non-www), it was showing up as indexed. Freaked me out because the www.website.com version is the one with about 1,000 more external links. I found canonical was set as website.com (non-www) and wondered if I should change that so that www.website.com would be indexed.

Anyway, after my day of reading, I think I understand this (and am hoping for affirmation):1. It is not advisable to change canonical to www since it has been that way for awhile2. The way to make sure all the seo link juice is not wasted is to to set a 301 redirect on www.website.com.Thanks for all this great information! July 17, 2012